[0:00]Now, you might be putting on your Pudsey ears or doing some fundraising at your school because tomorrow is Children in Need. But have you ever wondered where the money goes? Well, we've visited a gaming group in Sheffield which is just one of the thousands of projects Children in Need gives money to. The club helps autistic children. Autism is a condition which affects how a person communicates and interacts with the world. Trafence to meet them.
[0:30]One of my favorite characters would be Zepha, who is a very chaotic ASMR Bard. The character I'm playing right now is a um, is Aries the changeling monk. They're called Willow. Okay. They're a they're a cobol druid. Dungeons and Dragons or D&D for short, is a tabletop storytelling game. I would describe it as a game where you take on the role of a character and sort of pretend to be someone else for a bit, mucking about in a fantasy world with your friend. I have got so many questions for all of you. The first being, what ways does this club help you with your autism? They don't expect certain things from me. I can just be a person playing on a computer or dealing cards and just be me. This is a good way to talk to people and also there's you don't have to mask as much because everyone's autistic. How would you best describe your autism to somebody who may not particularly understand it too well? A description I like using is like you were born with flippers for feet. Flippers don't work so well on land, but like you put them on water, they're great. We're different, but and we have like struggles and we need lots of extra help, but we're not wrong. People almost expect autism to be the same, with sensory overload, it's not a, and it's usually not flashing lights. It's for me, I get sensory overload when it's loud noises. The consequences. Funds from this year's Children in Need will go towards helping groups like this continue across the UK. It's a very good way to sort of improve your confidence, especially if like a role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons. It can sometimes being yourself can be a little scary. Another way it can help is you can sort of practice having disagreements with your friends in a sort of safe way to do it. So you can sort of learn like skills that could maybe help as you grow up in adult life. Okay, so now I know a bit more about D&D, wait, it was time for me to give it a go. Roll your damage. My damage. Uh-huh. Oh. Oh, listen, it just it came naturally to me, all right? It came naturally. Now, someone else who's been raising money for Children in Need is BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills. He's been running, walking and broadcasting on a treadmill since 20 past 8 yesterday morning, and he's still got an hour to go to complete his 24-hour challenge. So far, he's raised more than 360,000 pounds. And loads of you have been getting in touch to tell us what you're doing for Children in Need. Gryffindor Potter 07 says, on Friday the school are doing a sponsored Karaoke-athon, that sounds fantastic. Vandana says, in my school, we're having a dress down day. And Llama Kitten 24 says, at my school, we're dressing up in spotty and stripy clothes.
